Warning Doesn't Prevent Fatal Train Crash In India

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November 27, 1998

KHANNA, India - A switchman frantically alerted the nearest rail station that the Frontier Mail had just derailed and was sprawled across the tracks of an oncoming express train. But it was too late. The Sealdah Express had sped past the station and couldn't see the derailed coaches in the darkness and mist early Thursday morning. The express train tore into the four disabled cars, killing at least 120 people and injuring more than 250, police and railroad officials said. Most of the victims were asleep at the time of the crash. By this morning, rescue workers had pulled 120 bodies from the wreckage.